<p>It's Week D, do you know where your preview update is? 23H2 is out - 24H2, not so much! No surprises in the new features list, but are more new features on the way? </p> <p>Windows</p><ul> <li>New text actions in Click to Do - Practice in Reading Coach and Read with Immersive Reader - in Dev and Beta (24H2)</li> <li>Find cloud-based (OneDrive-based) photos using Semantic search - Comes to EEA, Snapdragon X only for now, Dev and Beta</li> <li>Voice access improvements - add words to custom dictionary - Dev and Beta</li> <li>Updated green screen UI - latest Canary build, from today</li> <li>Minor update to the Beta/23H2 channel, no new features</li> <li>Ubuntu 25.04 is out and there's a native Arm64 ISO (!) and BitLocker support</li> <li>Hands-on with WSL (which is stuck at 24.xx) and in Hyper-V on a Copilot+ PC</li> <li>Is dual-boot even possible on Arm? (Yet)</li> <li>Friday night update to identity caused accounts to be marked as leaked for 50,000 partner accounts</li></ul> <p>AI</p><ul> <li>We're in a new wave: Microsoft 365 Copilot updated, new Agent Store and more on the way</li> <li>Copilot Vision is now free for everyone in Microsoft Edge</li> <li>Google is giving Gemini Advanced/Google One AI Premium away for free to US college students</li> <li>Google estimates its Gemini AI chatbot had 35M DAUs and 350M MAUs worldwide as of last month while ChatGPT had 160M DAUs and 600M MAUs (Erin Woo/The Information)</li> <li>Perplexity is coming to Samsung and Motorola phones - and Microsoft is apparently coming to Motorola too</li></ul> <p>Antitrust</p><ul> <li>It's getting real - 20 years after US v. Microsoft, Big Tech is finally getting a reckoning</li> <li>Google has now lost two major US antitrust cases in less than a year</li> <li>US v. Google (search): DOJ wants Judge to break up Google</li> <li>US v. Google (ads): Google found to have another illegal monopoly</li> <li>What's the "right" outcome for Chrome and Google's ad businesses?</li> <li>OpenAI says it would be happy to buy Chrome from Google- hilarious</li> <li>Google just killed Privacy Sandbox, cites regulatory climate</li> <li>Apple, Meta fined by EU for not conforming to the DMA</li> <li>Apple Intelligence is no longer "available now" (Siri: Is it raining?)</li></ul> <p>Xbox/gaming</p><ul> <li>Elder Scrolls IV Remastered lands on Xbox, PC, PS5 and Game Pass</li> <li>Xbox app arrives on LG smart TVs</li> <li>It's (back) on: Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders rescheduled to April 24 with no price change</li> <li>And the demand is higher than expected, Nintendo says</li></ul> <p>Tips and Picks</p><ul> <li>Tip of the week: It's time to look at Google Fi again</li> <li>HARDWARE pick of the week: Microsoft keyboards and mice are back, baby</li> <li>RunAs Radio this week: Agentic AI for IT Pros with Tim Warner</li> <li>Brown liquor pick of the week: Dark Harmony No. 3 Black IPA Cask</li></ul> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paul-thurrott">Paul Thurrott</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/richard-campbell">Richard Campbell</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to <em>Windows Weekly</em> at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly">https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly</a></p> <p>Check out Paul's blog at <a href="https://www.thurrott.com/" target="_blank">thurrott.com</a></p> <p>The <em>Windows Weekly</em> theme music is courtesy of <a href="https://twitter.com/carlfranklin" target="_blank">Carl Franklin</a>.</p> <p><strong>Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!</strong><br /> Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="payment">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p> <p><strong>Sponsor:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://spaceship.com/twit" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">spaceship.com/twit</a></li> </ul></p>
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Published: 2025-04-23 16:56:09